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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> I personally believe laws should always be enforced and followed. Laws are written by imperfect humans. Bad laws exist.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Cumulonimbus has been separated from its etymological roots. It now refers to the physics that can produce deep convection, high clouds, and the formation of an anvil shape (along with lightning, etc). The convection that produces a cumulo
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
I couldn't get through it. I find it exhausting trying to read anything that smells remotely like linkedin AI slop at this point.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> As someone who’s had bikes stolen and car broken into, I sympathize with the desire for surveillance (especially in San Francisco). That isn't what it is being used for. That would still require cops to be investigating petty the
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism... oh no, not communism.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
American Capitalists don't really need any help there; they're making Americans hate Data Centers all on their own.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
I wonder how long it takes before someone instructs an LLM to design and launch a "Morris Worm 2.0" and cripple the Internet for a good while. Might even wind up happening by accident (again).
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
A cascade would be bad enough.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
The problem is that if the AI companies pass through the actual costs they're incurring, then charges to those companies will >10x. If the companies don't see that kind of value (so LLMs don't become dramatically better in
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Which routed those funds through the economy's financial circuit and caused ZIRP, inflation in asset prices, and the evaporation of risk premiums. But the pendulum swinging rapidly to the other side has routed all those funds through t
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
I'm old enough to remember "this shirt is a munition" and the DeCSS t-shirt.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
> they're not sure if the vaccine will last in your system for more than 30 years Vaccines don't really last in your system more than a few days (although some cells get dragged off to the lymph nodes and get harshly interrogat
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
Almost as good as when they call everyone else "NPCs" and claim they're all performatively "virtue signalling".
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
> Many people think that viruses are as benign as common flu (influenza) Had influenza in 2018, as a 46-year-old and it was not particularly benign. 3 days straight of 103 degree fever and think I had mild long-covid-ish symptoms for the
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
You could still generate a mess for 5-10 years at that altitude. Even if it self-clears you still destroy the constellation and deny access to LEO for years.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
I think the usable counterpoint here is that you can refrain from excessively DRY'ing code up and defer it until later. There's a huge cost to Clean-Code-style DRY'ing of your codebase which is that you wind up creating all k
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
I've seen a lot of human-written tests that wind up testing the testing framework and not the actual code.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
If you just focus on capitalism, the apparent paradoxes dissolve. The wealthy clique in SF aren't really left-wing. Neither is the Seattle Times.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
In an ideal world, generated non-consensual imagery should be illegal through invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness, but I think only a limited number of states have those laws.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
It isn't even necessarily just Chesterton's Fences. The problem can just be picking your battles. Processes that are working well enough for the team don't need to be fixed right away to be better, and that'll dump a b
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
That slide should probably be the main focus, with the rest supplementary. That is the slide that is likely to pop the economy.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
That is the load-bearing detail.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
The capitalist free market in the United States is a lie. Regulatory capture now ensures that billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations can put you out of business and sell whatever remains for parts. If they don't decide to squash
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
There should be.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
I had claude throw something like "the last time I did <x>..." at me. They seem to be trying to pump up the "humanity" to keep people engaged with it, which really backfires with me.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
They might have to hire some people and create some jobs... Oh, the humanity...
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
Don't forget the blatant grift and corruption.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
Not a headscratcher at all, if you understand how our economy and politics are actually run.
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
The 12k number is an estimate, and only 1k were convicted. And the law they're being charged with breaking covers things like threats to assault someone, false bomb threats, harassment of ex-partners, threats sent to MPs, serious dome
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by dualvariable 3mo ago
Anthropic is at least renting their datacenters, not owning, so all the capital accounting bullshit is getting laundered by someone else, who will wind up holding that bag. And Anthropic is currently cornering the enterprise coding market,

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